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Kneecap wins case over 'unlawful' UK govt funding block

Irish language rap group Kneecap has won its discrimination case over a decision by former Conservative minister Kemi Badenoch to refuse them funding. Ms. Badenoch refused to give them an arts grant while a minister in the previous Tory government in Britain. Group member DJ Próvaí arrived at Belfast High Court in a repurposed RUC Land Rover for the short proceedings. The UK's Department of Business and Trade said in a statement that it would no longer be contesting the case. Under the terms of the settlement, it agreed that the original decision had been "unlawful and procedurally unfair". Kneecap said the case had never been about money. "For us, this action was never about the £14,250, it could have been 50p," the group said. "The motivation was equity. This was an attack on artistic culture, an attack on the Good Friday Agreement itself, and an attack on Kneecap and on our way of expressing itself," it added. Kneecap will now receive the £14,000 (€16,000) grant and it will split it between two community groups - one on either side of the Belfast peace line.